Korting Gide’s Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing (Ideologies of Desire) – Michael Lucey

In this provocative new book, Michael Lucey examines the unstable convergence of sexual, political, and literary commitments in André Gide’s writing of the 1920s and 1930s–the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality and participated most actively in left-wing politics. Through close readings of his memoirs, novels, and political tracts, Gide’s Bent interrogates both the political content of Gide’s ways of reflecting on his homosexuality and the ways his sexuality inflected his politic…